ICN Mountain West

Can New Ranching Practices Help Cattle, Cowboys and Wolves Coexist?

A small nonprofit with an innovative approach to predator-livestock conflicts is trying to ease Colorado ranchers’ concerns about wolves.

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Federal Plan Makes Steep Colorado River Water Cuts to Arizona, California and Nevada

By Jake Bolster

How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood

By Mosabber Hossain

Trump Administration Eyes Massive Coal Reserves Under Federal Lands

By Lisa Sorg

Global Warming Unmakes Winter in the US West

By Bob Berwyn

A Record-Warm Winter and Summer Heatwave Are Stoking Montana’s Wildfire Risk

By Mosabber Hossain

Will Trump’s Handoff of Grizzly Management to States Lead to More Dead Bears?

By Steven Rodas

Trump Again Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, This Time by Much More

By Wyatt Myskow

Colorado Voters Will Decide Whether a ‘Right to Natural Gas’ is Added to the State Constitution

By Maya McDaniel

Montana County Seeks Pause on AI Data Centers After Property Owner Withdraws Support

By Mosabber Hossain

New Gold Exploration Revives Old Fears for Montana’s Blackfoot River

By Mosabber Hossain

Large Fires Scorch Drought-Stricken Western U.S. 

By Kiley Price

Three Wildland Firefighters Killed in Colorado Blaze

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Planning for Life After Coal Cost a Montana County Commissioner His Seat

By Jake Bolster

Utah National Monument Survives Attempt to Rescind its Management Plan

By Wyatt Myskow

Hoover Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff

Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

Montana Officials Warn of Elevated Wildfire Risk From Increasing Drought, Heat and Wind

By Mosabber Hossain

Feds Will Soon Impose New Framework on Colorado River if States Can’t Agree How to Manage It

By Wyatt Myskow

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden